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PCB manufacturing impedance control PCB Manufacturing and Impedance Control: How to Specify Your Requirements PCB manufacturing houses can easily accommodate impedance control requirements as long as you can specify requirements clearly. Here’s what to tell your fabricator. Read Article
DNP in BOM and PCB assembly Best Practices for Using DNI/DNP Entries in Your PCB BOM You can use the DNI/DNP designation on components in your PCB BOM to create design variants as long as you’ve created your layout correctly. Read Article
Flexible Circuits: Getting Started Flexible Circuits: Getting Started Expert Tara Dunn tackles in detail the key benefits driving designers to use flexible materials. Read now to learn more. Read Article
Bogatin’s “Practical Guide to” Book Series Bogatin’s “Practical Guide to” Book Series Eric Bogatin, the Dean of Signal Integrity Academy, is here to talk about empowering PCB designers to become their own experts. Eric also shares the inspiration behind his new book. Read Article
LDO efficiency Testing the Limits of Your LDO's Efficiency The efficiency of your LDO isn’t a fixed value, but neither is your maximum current output. Read about your LDO efficiency curve to better see why LDOs have narrow operating ranges. Read Article
High current switched mode power supply PCB layout Switched-Mode Power Supply PCB Layout Guidelines Create and simulate your design and follow these switched-mode power supply PCB layout guidelines. Read Article
PCB power plane routing Should You Route Signals in Your PCB Power Plane? Before you cut up your PCB power plane with signals, pay attention to things like impedance control power plane current capacity to ensure reliability. Read Article
MOSFET Power dissipation calculator Using SPICE as a MOSFET Power Dissipation Calculator The circuit design and simulation features in Altium Designer can be your MOSFET power dissipation calculator. Read Article
Test-Driven Development for Embedded Systems Test-Driven Development for Embedded Systems What is Hardware-in-the-loop testing and how it can save you time and resources when designing your board? Watch this podcast episode with Ari Mahpour to learn more. Read Article
input impedance How to Use Input Impedance in Circuits and Transmission Lines The concept of input impedance is used to understand power transfer and matching in complex interconnects. Read Article
Reference designators Altium Designer Helps You Track Reference Designators on Your PCB Make sure you use the right reference designators in your PCB and in your drawings, schematic sheets, and circuit board layout. Read Article
Low Cost Solutions for Automated Hardware in the Loop Testing Low Cost Solutions for Automated Hardware in the Loop Testing A project overview demonstrating low-cost solutions for automated hardware in the loop testing using the Pytest framework Read Article
PCB copper thickness What PCB Copper Thickness Should You Use? Do you know what PCB copper thickness you should use in your circuit board? Learn more about copper thickness and what it means for your fabrication process in this guide. Read Article
PCB schematic netlist The Anatomy of Your Schematic Netlist, Ports, and Net Names Your schematic netlist will create the link between components as you build your schematic sheets. See how your schematic sheets enable usage of net names and ports to help you stay organized. Read Article
Total harmonic distortion How Total Harmonic Distortion Affects Your Power System Total harmonic distortion is used to quantify the quality of power that reaches your electronics. Read Article
Key Factors of Thoughtful Design Key Factors of Thoughtful Design Ed Becze of Pegmatis, a highly experienced R&D company with end-to-end product development capabilities, joins us to help start-ups and design engineers like you avoid electronic product development failures. Read Article
What is high speed design What is High Speed Design? Learn more about what is high speed design and how to successfully design and route your high speed PCB layout. Read Article